The General Chat Thread

Faith · 2013-10-07 17:37:34

We've built up a nice little community here, so I think it's no harm to start a chat thread. Use it for whatever you like - cooking and recipe related questions, or just to chat!

#6422 09-10-2015 01:18PM

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Hi,

In Dublin today with work and a colleague brought me to a place called Madina at the end of Jervis St. Unbelievable Indian food! Best I've ever eaten. I had the lamb bhuna and highly recommended!

Loire.

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#6423 09-10-2015 03:07PM

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Instead of boiling your egg in water, steam it instead. I suppose there's less chance of it cracking as it bounces on the bottom of the pan......

Watcha think foodies?:)

http://www.independent.ie/life/food-drink/food-news/how-to-cook-the-perfect-egg-steam-it-dont-boil-it-31596017.html

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#6424 09-10-2015 03:17PM

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Gloomtastic! wrote: »

I suppose there's less chance of it cracking as it bounces on the bottom of the pan.

Most of my cracks are due to thermal stress, putting cold eggs in boiling hot water, to stop this I sometimes put them in a cup of warm water first. If your eggs are flying about in a boiling pot and cracking then you can afford to reduce the power as there is obviously more than enough to keep it boiling.

Steaming eggs is meant to have some other effect, think it might be easier to peel.

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#6425 09-10-2015 04:00PM

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Loire wrote: »

Hi,

In Dublin today with work and a colleague brought me to a place called Madina at the end of Jervis St. Unbelievable Indian food! Best I've ever eaten. I had the lamb bhuna and highly recommended!

Loire.

My cousin just recommended that place to me!

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#6426 09-10-2015 05:11PM

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Gloomtastic! wrote: »

Instead of boiling your egg in water, steam it instead. I suppose there's less chance of it cracking as it bounces on the bottom of the pan......

Watcha think foodies?:)

http://www.independent.ie/life/food-drink/food-news/how-to-cook-the-perfect-egg-steam-it-dont-boil-it-31596017.html

I say life is too short, because then you've also got to wash the steamer.

Has anyone ever coddled an egg? I'd never heard of it until I bought a coddler at a car boot sale a few years ago - I had to google it to find out what it was. Apparently they were used a lot in olden days. It took about 8 minutes for the egg to be done and then it was fiddly to wash because I hadn't oiled it so I've only used it once.

This is the same as the one I have.

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#6427 09-10-2015 06:29PM

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^ never heard of that before. Interesting.

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#6428 10-10-2015 12:59AM

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Dizzyblonde wrote: »

I say life is too short, because then you've also got to wash the steamer.

Ah, I dunno, sure when boiling eggs, the saucepan barely needs washing, a steamer would be the same!

I'd love to give steaming an egg a go.

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#6429 10-10-2015 11:27AM

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In argos the nutri ninja is 77euro and nutribullet is 83euro

more info here

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057505752

I think there may be other ways to maximise it, like getting vouchers or buying argos vouchers in tesco which get you points.

I have the ninja and find it great.

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#6430 10-10-2015 12:30PM

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rubadub wrote: »

In argos the nutri ninja is 77euro and nutribullet is 83euro

You're heaven-sent! I was just amazoning a ninja just last night. They're £99 there!
I've been contemplating to get one since a year ago; at the moment I use a Tesco hand blender that does the job but needs to be transferred to another beaker on the go, and almost every time I'd have to give a good mix with a good ol spoon to break the green powder down. Since I use it everyday €77 is well worth the investment. Thanks for the tip!

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#6431 10-10-2015 12:43PM

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Mrs Fox wrote: »

Thanks for the tip!

You would probably want to check stock & reserve one if you have not already.

http://checkargos.com/?search=379/6586
http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/3796586/Trail/searchtext%3ENINJA.htm

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#6432 10-10-2015 12:59PM

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rubadub wrote: »

You would probably want to check stock & reserve one if you have not already.

Already did

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#6433 10-10-2015 02:44PM

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Quick question..
I'm having a few people over and i was planning on making pulled pork (for the first time)

Went into the local butcher and ordered a pork shoulder. Collected it today and was given this - http://i.imgur.com/kDuXotr.jpg

Is it a pork shoulder? Looks more like a loin. I've never bought a Pork shoulder so i've no clue.

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#6434 10-10-2015 02:51PM

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Looks like shoulder with the bone out and rind off to me, pork loin wouldn't be as fatty and wouldn't have the different 'types' of meat in it (can't think of a better way of describing it, different muscles sort of a thing) Here's a derinded, deboned one out of its netting

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#6435 10-10-2015 04:48PM

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rubadub wrote: »

In argos the nutri ninja is 77euro and nutribullet is 83euro

more info here

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057505752

I think there may be other ways to maximise it, like getting vouchers or buying argos vouchers in tesco which get you points.

I have the ninja and find it great.

Would either of these be any good for purée ing baby dinners?

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#6436 10-10-2015 05:27PM

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What kind of cameras do people when photographing their foodstuffs? Some of the photography on this forum is fantastic! I'm wondering is it down to the camera or do people not even have great cameras and just have the skill?

Whether I use my phone or my camera, the photo are usually crap. Sometimes I'll luck into a decent one.

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#6437 10-10-2015 05:31PM

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Tarzana2 wrote:

What kind of cameras do people when photographing their foodstuffs? Some of the photography on this forum is fantastic! I'm wondering is it down to the camera or do people not even have great cameras and just have the skill?

Whether I use my phone or my camera, the photo are usually crap. Sometimes I'll luck into a decent one.

I'm the same, point & click with the phone and hope for the best. I'm sure there's a lot more I could be doing with filters etc. but as I discovered when I was blogging, there's a trade-off to be had between taking great photographs of your food and getting to eat it while it's still hot. The glutton in me wins, unfortunately.

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#6438 10-10-2015 05:54PM

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Tarzana2 wrote: »

What kind of cameras do people when photographing their foodstuffs? Some of the photography on this forum is fantastic! I'm wondering is it down to the camera or do people not even have great cameras and just have the skill?

Whether I use my phone or my camera, the photo are usually crap. Sometimes I'll luck into a decent one.

I used to use my Olympus e420 until my laptop monitor broke down over a year ago (which I couldn't be bothered to send in for repair and use iPad instead these days) which means I couldn't upload any photos from the camera. So I've only been taking photos from either the iPad, or my mobile an HTC the low range, which I would later edit.
I miss the quality of the camera. Thanks for bringing up this subject, cause as winter darkness sets in it's difficult to capture good photo from the crappy mobile, which shouldn't be a problem with the camera. Now I must look for that laptop in the shed and get it fixed.

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#6439 10-10-2015 05:55PM

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I just use my iPhone. They don't look much when I'm browsing on my phone but when I'm using the larger laptop the detail in the pics is pretty good.

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#6440 10-10-2015 07:26PM

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Dial Hard wrote: »

but as I discovered when I was blogging, there's a trade-off to be had between taking great photographs of your food and getting to eat it while it's still hot. The glutton in me wins, unfortunately.

Ha! Think this might be my issue too...

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#6441 11-10-2015 07:51AM

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Whispered wrote: »

I sense a crusty bread dip dinner coming up. Between DizzyBlondes mushroom pate and MysteryEggs cheesy dip I could well be on my way to food heaven. Maybe one more dippy type dish to round it out?

Still in my food coma from last night and plenty left for lunch.

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#6442 11-10-2015 10:12AM

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I'm off to a car boot sale this morning. I have a tenner in my pocket and I'm not afraid to use it so fingers crossed and a novena to the saint that takes care of filling-your-kitchen-with-odd-bits-of-tat-that-can-have-a-finger-off-you-if- you're-not-careful that someone is clearing out the more ridiculous items from their (or their mothers or grandmothers!) kitchens, please.

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#6443 11-10-2015 12:12PM

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^^^^^^^^^

Yeah, no. My good lord there was a significant amount of dirty rubbish there. Not the treasure trove of interesting kitchen oddities I had thought there might be.

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#6444 11-10-2015 12:36PM

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Did you pick up anything at all?

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#6445 11-10-2015 12:50PM

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My husband has gone to visit his brother so I'm watching old episodes of the Great British Bake Off in my pajamas, while eating baked cheesecake and drinking tea. Could this be heaven?!

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#6446 11-10-2015 12:54PM

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homemadecider wrote: »

My husband has gone to visit his brother so I'm watching old episodes of the Great British Bake Off in my pajamas, while eating baked cheesecake and drinking tea. Could this be heaven?!

Hell yeah.

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#6447 11-10-2015 01:16PM

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Mrs Fox wrote: »

Hell yeah.

Come on over, plenty of cheesecake left and I can lend you a pair of fleece PJs!

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#6448 11-10-2015 01:17PM

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Whispered wrote: »

Did you pick up anything at all?

Cholera, possibly

Agh, no, not to be a snob. It was just more clothes, clock radios and very obscure pirate dvds.

Was eyeballing a roasting tray, like my granny used to have, with spikes on the base to hold the meat, but the-other-side-of-the-table is not from a culture with a tradition of buying things second hand out of the back of people's cars and looked vaguely horrified by the whole thing

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#6449 11-10-2015 06:24PM

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It's hard to find a decent car boot sale

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#6450 11-10-2015 06:33PM

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There's a really good one near me in Carrick on Shannon every weekend, it's an indoor market with second hand traders/eggs/cupcakes etc and also an outdoor carboot bit which has different sellers most weeks. Either that or Mullan market up the North.
Haven't been in a couple of months though, must rectify that next week!

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#6451 12-10-2015 11:10AM

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So, back in August I split my monster oregano in two and put it into separate pots, one of which had coriander in it last year (or possibly even the year before, I can't remember). This is now happening. Awesome! But also a bit crazy considering a) it's October and b) only one of the pots ever had coriander in it to begin with.

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